Imagine your company brochure or promotional material on screen - that is a
home page or web site. It is placed on-line within a hosting service and is
available to all those seeking information about your product or service
....... 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks of the year.

A well designed and constructed web site or home page places your company on
world view. With a potential readership of literally millions covering
virtually every country, your page or site is there to be seen if marketed
correctly and placed with a reputable hosting service. Your product and
service has the potential to reach a global marketplace, as well as an
extensive home-based market. By giving your advertising business to a web
designer you work with them to produce an end product with which you are happy
and you can explain exactly what you have in mind and what your expectations
are of this medium.

A domain name is the unique address given to every web page and used to find a
web site on the Internet. There are several types available. You can have a
domain name with your free Internet Service Provider and this shows up at the
end of their own domain with your email address or nominated name.

Search engines are the mechanisms that generate traffic to your site but only
if the information submitted is relevant and concise in nature. They are
computers which seek out and hold the information given in your site so that
people looking for a specific topic, area, type of site can find yours in the
search engines' databases.

Hosting means placing the site or home page within the allocated space of a
domain held and operated by another company. It is not necessary for smaller
sites to register a domain name of their own and for an annual fee these sites
can be hosted on the 'parent site' by the site designer. For example our
domain is freehosting.com and the company name of a client using us to host would
look like: http://www.freehosting.com/galwayfoods/index.htm (as the front page), ...additional pages give further information.../galwayfoods/frozen.htm
However businesses or organisations benefit from registering their own domain
name as this offers a more professional appearance.

Many companies offer free hosting facilities. The disadvantage to this is that
they place banner advertisements on the pages, many of which are often large
and overpowering. Your details may be sold to bulk mailing companies leaving
you open to tons of e-mail. It is from these advertising sources that their
own revenue is obtained.

Reputable design houses offer a good maintenance and up-date service to keep
the site as visible as possible and this is normally part of the agreement to
hosting the site. It is necessary that the hosting service is placed with a
good and reputable company which ensures technical support and a daily back-up
service as well as security.

This really boils down to the message or information you
want to convey effectively. The answer to this question
lies with the nature of your site. It could range from 1
to more than 100 pages although each and every page must
have a clear purpose. A typical product or service selling
site should generally consist (as a basic minimum) of the following
pages:

Almost anyone can create a web site with software available
today. However, the success of a site is dependant on methodical
planning and design that functions well and appeals visually
to its intended audience. Software of this nature produce
commonly used templates, so your site will lack flexibility
and have the look of other common, software generated pages.
Only a skilled, creative and an experienced web designer
can create a tailored design for you, based on your own
requirements. It's really a case of the level of professionalism
you want to project to your audience and the effectiveness
you want your site to achieve!

What if I need to make changes
in text and pictures of my website after it has been developed?

All the changes in text, pictures are free after your website
has been developed and you have paid. However if the number
of request for changes exceed 3 requests per month, you
would be charged a nominal price for that.

Of course you can! The question really is, do you want
to? Would you build your own computer? Your own car? How
much time are you willing to spend? How much technical
detail are you willing to learn? Will you be satisfied with
the results?